Remi is the Events Coordinator at The National Arts Club, where she manages a wide variety of events including lectures, gallery openings, talks, screenings, and cocktail parties for the twelve arts committees. She graduated from Boston University with a degree in Art History concentrating in Modern and Contemporary Art. She has worked in institutions including the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston as well as MoMA PS1 before taking her post at The National Arts Club.

Ryan Murphy, GFAA Young Visionaries Co-Chair, ryan@ollie.co

Ryan manages Corporate Partnerships for Ollie, a national all-inclusive co-living community. After volunteering at the 2017 GFAAs, she was inspired to become more involved in the organization. She is grateful to have combined Ollie and GFAA at the 2018 Gala with Ollie becoming a Cultural Collaborator for the Young Visionaries After Party. With a Theater Studies degree from Duke University and a professional background in event planning, coordinating and execution, she is excited to put her skills, and love of all forms of art, to work within the YV Committee and GFAA community at large.

Desiree F. Moore is a partner in the Chicago office of the international law firm K&L Gates LLP. Ms. Moore is commercial litigator, with a focus on Intellectual Property, Social Media, and Art Law related matters. Ms. Moore is the founder and co-chair of the firm’s Social Media and the Law practice group, as well as the firm’s Middle East Art Law representative.

Marta Nowakowski was born in Poland and raised in Germany. She is an attorney at BMW, responsible for Trademarks, Design and Legal Issues related to Intellectual Property Law. Previously, Ms. Nowakowski worked for an international London-based law firm focused on Intellectual Property. She clerked in Berlin with several internships in public broadcasting, art law and publishing. Contact: Marta Nowakowski, martanowakowski@gmail.com

Alexandra Stanco, Young Visionaries Committee

Alexandra Stanco is a recent graduate of Florida Southern College where she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and a minor in Art History. Since her graduation she moved back to New York to actively pursue her dreams within the fine art world. Alexandra’s interests also include many social political issues that take place within the world today.

Combining her interests of art and politics she wants to have an impact on society and bring attention to important issues facing us today. During Alexandra’s senior thesis, at Florida Southern College, she earned second place with her three nine feet oil paintings. These paintings mimicked billboard advertisements that displayed women in an over sexualized manner, and further altered these women who, in the end, became the product themselves. Alexandra continues to work with oil paint and create paintings relating to today’s conflicts.

On March 8, the 2018 GFAA Award Ceremony After Party, the first YV event , provided an intimate opportunity to meet and mingle with our art-stars, and included open bar, light bites and a DJ with dancing throughout the evening. The YV event venue was the (very private and exclusive) National Arts Club’s entire ground floor space- which features a billiard room, two art galleries and another area for dancing. The event was organized by our YV Committee, chaired by Remi Koukou​, Events Coordinator at the National Arts Club